Comments on: No Country For Old Teachers /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/ less helpful Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:44:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: dy/dan » Blog Archive » Don’t Let Your Students Use Music In Their Video Projects /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-204929 Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:44:55 +0000 /?p=602#comment-204929 […] No Country For Old Men featured smart suspense, fat-free plotting, and some truly terrifying set-pieces, all without the shock chords and shrieking notes that horror schlock has to trowel onto otherwise unscary sequences. The movie was silent. […]

]]> By: day one ‘08 : Continue /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-55657 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:51:06 +0000 /?p=602#comment-55657 […] dy/dan » Blog Archive » No Country For Old Teachers] (italic emphasis […]

]]> By: DrPezz /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-53095 Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:18:46 +0000 /?p=602#comment-53095 “classroom rules are a cheap sub for a classroom well-managed”

I connect to this on so many levels because I feel too many classrooms are run by fear of penalty rather than a love of student.

Tacky as this may be, I will self-promote and give you a link to my post about my short theory on behavior modification in the classroom:

http://drpezz.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/do-we-need-classroom-rules/

]]> By: Benjamin Baxter /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52989 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:06:10 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52989 Yep: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/187

]]> By: TheInfamousJ /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52896 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:35:42 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52896 Group Work is a cheap sub for Collaboration

As a science teacher, I explicitly teach the difference in between group work and collaboration at the beginning of my classes. Then, sometimes I’ll say, “Collaborate.” And to my delighted surprise, they do. “It makes us feel grown up,” one of my students told me.

Another one, which I don’t know how to describe is when teachers have students/groups come up one-at-a-time to present information to the class. That’s a cheap sub for engaged students (the rest of the class). My solution in my world’s-tiniest-room-ever is to have a gallery walk where everyone is presenting simultaneously. Much more engagement from the “audience” that way. Just make sure there’s one expert for every display in each travel group.

]]> By: Mr. K. /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52617 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:55:43 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52617 whoops.

I meant this.

]]> By: Mr. K. /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52616 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:55:08 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52616 Thisone?

this is also worth watching.

]]> By: sandy /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52582 Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:55:35 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52582 Benjamin Baxter wrote:
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So sorry to ask, but which TED lecture? Have you a link, by chance? Thanks!

-sandy

]]> By: Benjamin Baxter /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52516 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:33:55 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52516 I like Identity 2.0, but I prefer Lessig, given the latter’s use of visuals. Lessig also doesn’t seem as frantic.

http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/

]]> By: Benjamin Baxter /2008/no-country-for-old-teachers/#comment-52514 Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:18:55 +0000 /?p=602#comment-52514 I hope you’ll excuse the slip. That’s just a reflection of where I teach.

PowerPoint and classroom technology aren’t synonymous where I’m a student teacher. At this high school, 5-year-old textbooks and a television set are the peak of classroom technology in most classrooms.

There are other bits of classroom technology floating around if the teacher buys it.

http://awaitingtenure.wordpress.com/

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